Deep-well-drilling machinery.



' A. W. RINEBOLD'.

DEEP,WELL DRILLING MACHINERY.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 5- 1914.

1,156,178. v Patented Oct. 12, 1915.

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APPLICATION FILED JUNE 6, I914.

Patented 001.12, 1915, I

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. INVE NTOR.

ARTHUR W. IRITSI'EBOLD, OF RISINGSUN, OHIO.

DEEP-WELL-DRILLING 1VIACHINERY.

Application filed June 6, 1914.

To all whom it may camera:

Be it known that I, ARTHUR W. RINE- BOLD, a citizen of the UnitedStates, and a resident of Risingsun, in the county of Wood and State ofOhio, have invented certain new anduseful Deep Well DrillinglVlachinery; and I do hereby declare the following to' be a: full,clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to thecharacters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of thisspecification.

My invention relates to deep well machinery.

It particularly relates to a machinery for starting drilling and bailingwells.

By my invention, a standard rigging is provided which is silled in sucha way that the pressures on the sills will be balanced. There is alsoprovided a means for spudding the hole.

The invention may be contained in many forms of constructions usable forvaried purposes all of which come within the purview of my claimshereinafter appended. To show the practicability of my invention, I haveselected one of such constructions as an example and shall describe ithereinafter. The construction selected is illus' trated in theaccompanying drawings.

Figure 1 of the drawing illustrates a part of the sill andthsuperstructure. Fig. 2 illustrates a part of the sill and thesuperstructure also illustrated in Fig. 1 and the standard rigging. Fig.3 illustrates a top view of the part of the mechanism shown in Fig. 2.Fig. 4 is an enlarged view ofthe connecting gearing shown in Fig. 2.Fig. 5 illustrates the pulley on the spadding rod.

Referring to Fig. 1, 1 is the engine which supplies the power foroperating the deep well drilling mechanism. 2 is the pulley driven bythe engine. The engine is located on the end of the sill 3 which isformed of I-beams and extends the length of the mechanism, The beams 3are metal I-beams and extend from beneath the engine to beneath thestandard rigging. The I-beams 3 are made of one piece and thecompression members and the engine are so positioned on the I-beam thatthe pressures on the sill will be balanced in the operation of theSpecification of Letters Patent.

?atented Get. 12, 1915.

Serial N 0. 843,409. 7

drill and other apparatus. In many forms of structures, heretofore used,the sill supporting the standard rigging will be tilted up four or fivefeet. In my invention, the sill extends beneath the engine and theoperative mechanism and standard rigging and the truss members of thestandard are so connected as to completely balance the is suitablyconnected to the table 6 and braced by suitable beams. The wheel 5 alsodrives a friction wheel 14 supported'on a shaft 15'. The wheel 5 isconnected to the shaft 9 and to the friction wheel 16 which drives thefriction wheel 14 when the friction wheel 14 is swung over so as to makecontact with the friction wheel 16. This is accomplished by means of alever 17 which is pivoted at 18 to the table 6 and carries, at its upperend, shaft 15 so as to swing the friction wheel 14 against the frictionwheel 16. The lower end of the lever is connected by a link 19 to a handlever or a foot lever 20, which, when operated, throws the wheel againstwheel 16. The shaft 15 is provided with a spool 21 which has a cable 22which passes over a sheave 23 and is connected with the bailer 24. The

lever 20 and the spool 21 are operated to raise and lower the bailerwhen the well is to be bailed in the manner well known in the art. Thewheel 5 is also connected to the bevel gear wheel 25, as shown in Fig.3. A pinion 26 meshes with the bevel gear 25 and operates a shaft 27which is mounted in suitable bearings 28. A similar pinion 29' operatesupon a bevel gear 30 which is connected to the bull-wheel 31. Thebullwheel shaft is suitably supported in the uprights 32. The gearwheels 26 and 29 are;

keyed-to the shaft 27. Disconnection and connection may be made byslipping the gear wheels 26 and 29 along their respective keys. This maybe done by slip rings 35 which are moved by the levers 36 and 37 in themanner well known in the art. The

' sheave lever 36 is pivoted in the bracket 88 and the lever 37 ispivoted to the table 6 and its upper end is connected to a link 59 Whichis connected to a pivot handle or lever 39. The shaft 27 may be jointedthrough the universal 7 to allow for vibration or slight variation ofbearingsin mounting the rig.

For starting the hole it may be spudded by using the spudding rod &0which is connected at one end to the crank 10 located on the shaft 9 andextends between two cross beams 41 located in the standard rig 32. helateral play of the spudding rod 40 may be limited by the blocks 42located between the cross beams 41. The outer end of the spudding rod 40is bifurcated and a sheave i3 is located between the furcations 46 ofthe spudding rod 40. The drill or spudding cable l-lextends from thedrill over the sheave 45 located at the top of the rigging 32 and overthe wheel 43 located on the spudding rod 40 to the bull-wheel 81. Thebull-wheel 31 is secured by any suitable mechanism and as the spuddingrod 40 is shifted in and out between the cross beams 4L1, it pushes thecable 4% in and out and causes the cable between the drill and the to beraised and consequently causes the drill to be raised. is the spuddingrod 40 is pulled inwardly by the crank 10, the drill is dropped downwardand strikes the bottom of the well. After the drill hole is started to adepth sufficient to allow manipulation of the drill by the walkin beam,the cable l i is connected to the walking beam 12 and drilling operationis continued by the walking beam which is connected to the crank 10through the link 11.

The rig is inclined inwardly toward the drilling operating mechanism. Abeam 50 extends from the top of the rig to the outer end of the table orbench 6. The compression strain is thus carried outward from the upperend of the rigging to a point remote from where the great pressure isproduced in running the drill. A beam 51 also braces the central part onthe standard rigging 3n. Suitable tie rods or beams 52 are also providedwhich receive strains and stresses and cooperate to produce a soliduniform and well balanced structure. The sill 3 extends from beneath theengine 1 under the table and the set of rigging 32. The whole rigging isthus well balanced and tilting of the parts is entirely avoided.

he construction selected and described, may be greatly varied in thearrangement and manufacture of its parts and in the substitution of theelements having equivalent functions and such modifications may be usedfor many varied purposes and still contain the invention which isdescribed in the claims in the language of the elements shown.

What T claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is asfollows:

1. The combination of a crank shaft having a crank, a spudding rodconnected to the crank, a wheel located at the end of the spudding rod,a fork having prongs located on opposite sides of the sheave, and adrill cable operated by the spudding rod.

2. The combination of a crank shaft, a spudding rod connected to thecrank shaft, a standard rigging, beams located on opposite sides of thespudding rod for guiding the spudding rod, a sheave located in the endof the spudding rod and having a guiding fork, and a drill cable passingover the sheave and operated by the spudding rod.

3. The combination of a sill, a standard rig supported on one end of thesill, an en gine supported on the other end of the sill, a drillingmechanism having a walking beam located intermediate the standard rigand the engine and supported on the sill, means for connecting thedrilling mechanism with the engine and a beam connected to the top ofthe standard. rig and to the end of the drilling mechanism remote fromthe stand ard rig, the sill made of a single Z-beam and extending thewhole length under the standard rig, walking beam and engine along eachside.

i. The combination of a sill, a standard rig supported on one end of thesill, an on gine supported on the other end of the sill, a drillingmechanism having a walking beam located intermediate the standard rigand the engine and supported on t e sill, a beam for connecting thedrilling mechanism remote from the standard rig and to the top of thestandard rig, a pair of beams connecting the central portion of thestandard rig with the other end of the drilling mechanism, a pair oftie-beams connecting the central portion of the first-named beam to thecentral portion and on each side of the standard rig.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto signed my name to thisspecification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ARTHUR W. RTNEBOLD.

Witnesses:

JOHN C. Bowen, GEORGIA Bownn.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents. Washington.1). C.

